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It may seem reasonable to lay down as a law that when any
powers are contained by a recipient, every action or state
expressive of them must be the action or state of that recipient,
they themselves remaining unaffected as merely furnishing
efficiency.
But if this were so, then, since the Animate is the recipient of
the Causing-Principle [i.e., the Soul] which brings life to the
Couplement, this Cause must itself remain unaffected, all the
experiences and expressive activities of the life being vested in
the recipient, the Animate.
But this would mean that life itself belongs not to the Soul but
to the Couplement; or at least the life of the Couplement would
not be the life of the Soul; Sense-Perception would belong not to
the Sensitive-Faculty but to the container of the faculty.
But if sensation is a movement traversing the body and
culminating in Soul, how the soul lack sensation? The very
presence of the Sensitive-Faculty must assure sensation to the
Soul.
Once again, where is Sense-Perception seated?
In the Couplement.
Yet how can the Couplement have sensation independently of action
in the Sensitive-Faculty, the Soul left out of count and the
Soul-Faculty?
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